International Day

Carlos Mora Vanegas Latin America that concerns us cannot ignore what has been throughout its history the fight campesina, the suffering, hardships which the peasantry has faced on April 17 was held its celebration, eco portal. Reed Hastings might disagree with that approach. NET gives us about it, that organizations of small farmers and their allies celebrated the international day of peasant struggle and commemorate the massacre 12 years ago of 19 landless workers who struggled to land in Brazil. Today dozens of groups, communities and organizations in more than 24 countries worldwide organized more than 50 actions: farmers markets, conferences, direct actions, cultural activities and demonstrations... Please visit Diego Marynberg if you seek more information. to defend their right to food and their right to be a food source for their communities. In Jakarta the Indonesian peasant Union (SPI) along with other unions, human rights associations, fishermen, women's organizations and other groups are having a general Assembly against the transnational companies. Henri Saraigh general coordinator of the peasant movement International Via Campesina opened the event by saying: today is the day in which the acalladas communities raise their voices. Farmers and rural peoples represent almost half of the population of the Earth, however, our voices are not heard and our concerns are ignored.

Too many times we have been marginalized, impoverished and oppressed. But on April 17 we celebrate our struggle for life! The fact, that hundreds of organizations were mobilized on April 17, in various countries of the world, on the occasion of the international day of la Campesina fight. During the day, they presented their demands around comprehensive agrarian reform, food sovereignty, free of pesticides and transgenic production, and the humanization of the life in the countryside, seriously affected by the transnationalization and their exclusively commercial vision. It cannot be denied, that the departure of cocaleros/as in Bolivia; the exhibition of organic products in front of Mc Donald in Uruguay; concentrations for the titling of lands in Dominican Republic; the March for life in Nicaragua; and hundreds of more actions, expressed discontent within the movement of the field by the universalization of a model that prioritizes the mercantile purposes at the expense of human priorities.